To Fold the Evening Star
New And Selected Poems
Published on 28. April 2016
256 pages
978-1-78410-189-3 (ISBN)
Description
Ian McMillan is among Britain's most treasured living poets. His books of poems, stories and non-fiction have delighted audiences for almost forty years. To Fold the Evening Star gathers work from eight key collections, distilling an essence of McMillan's diversiform poetry and short prose. Hilarity and tenderness, gravity and light, are interwoven into a bountiful poetic fibre. Brought up to date by a series of new and previously unpublished work, To Fold the Evening Star will satisy both the curious newcomer and the familiar reader alike, providing an ample, lively assortment of the work.
Reviews / Votes
'A force of nature.'The Guardian 'Inching towards the status of a National Treasure.'
Andy Kershaw 'World-class - one of today's greatest poetry performers.'
Carol Ann Duffy 'It's impossible not to like McMillan. If they made him Poet Laureate on Friday, a lot more people would be reading poetry by Monday.'
The Guardian 'An inspiring figure, an encouraging & democratic spirit, a strong & popular poet and one of the funniest people in Britain.'
Poetry News 'The verbal gymnastics of a north country Spike Milligan coupled with the comic timing of Eric Morecambe.'
Frome Festival 'The John Peel of poetry.'
Alec Finlay The North August 2016
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Carcanet Press Ltd
File size
0,86 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78410-189-3 (9781784101893)
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Person
Ian McMillan was born in Barnsley in 1956. He published his first Carcanet book of poems, The Changing Problem, in 1980. Now It Can Be Told appeared in 1983, Dad, the Donkey's On Fire in 1994. Selected Poems (Poetry Book Society Recommendation) has gone through several printings, and I Found this Shirt is now in its third printing.
He first made his name through his work with the Poetry Circus in the early 1980s. Since then he has become famous for his work in schools, radio (presenter of Booked and panellist on many other Radio 4 shows, The Mark Radcliffe Show and Poetry Please), as Poet in Residence for Barnsley F.C., and in poetry venues across the nation.
He first made his name through his work with the Poetry Circus in the early 1980s. Since then he has become famous for his work in schools, radio (presenter of Booked and panellist on many other Radio 4 shows, The Mark Radcliffe Show and Poetry Please), as Poet in Residence for Barnsley F.C., and in poetry venues across the nation.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dad, the Donkey's on Fire (1994)
- Kake Yourself Comfortable
- Why We Need Libraries
- Pit Closure as Art
- Lilian's Poem
- Death's Feet
- Husband and Wife
- Tempest Avenue
- Deaths from Ice Cream
- Ted Hughes is Elvis Presley
- Visit
- Early Train, Rain, Wombwell Station
- Poem Occasioned by the High Incidence of Suicide amongst the Unemployed
- Song for Roof Building
- The Force of His Storm Knocked Me from My Stool
- Moon River: Lives of the Great Comedians
- Henry's Skeleton, George's Leg
- Jesus Died from Eating Curtains
- Stone, I Presume
- Point of Transit
- Still Life Life
- Realism (Nothing is Ever Finished)
- Dad, the Donkey's on Fire
- Stories
- Poetry Matters
- The Route to Work
- Whatever Happened to Freddie Galloway?
- Grisp the Wheel at Ten Past Two
- There's Always a Man in a Cardigan
- Just Like Ours Except for the Ducks
- On the Closure of Cadeby Colliery
- Title (Northumberland June 11th/12th 1987)
- Slow Thaw
- In Fear of Abstraction
- Brief Encounter
- The Day after Armistice Day
- The Mirror in the Toilet
- Essential Engineering Works
- The er Barnsley Seascapes
- 1. Goldthorpe er Seascape
- 2. M1 Seascape near Hoyland: er it's a rough day
- 3. er Darfield Seascape
- 4. Little Houghton Seascape er like
- 5. An Old Seadog er Speaks
- 6. er from a Learned Paper about Seascapes
- 7. Seaview Video, Barnsley: Er Latest Offers
- 8. Seascape Could er Be Anywhere around here
- The Christmas Tree's Press Conference
- The Grimness
- Modernism: The Umbrella Girl Forgets What She is Talking About
- Burst Pipe with 'A Level' Notes
- Halifax!
- Rotherham
- Snails on the West Shore, August 1991
- Three Boring Miles on the Exercise Bike
- Smoke
- Bosnia Festival: Your Full Guide by our Arts Reporter
- The 70
- Frog Dream
- Dear Mr McMillan
- A Cliché Defines the Moment in a Poem about Language and Oppression
- Mining Town
- A Discussion on Modern Poetry with Example: Postman Pat's Suicide Note
- Bar Wars
- Sonny Boy Williamson is Trying to Cook a Rabbit in a Kettle
- The Scream on Stockport Station
- My Caravan's Got a Bontempi Organ in it
- The Ice House
- Epic, I Mean an Epic Feel to it
- Grace
- Top Row/Low Row, Woolley Colliery Village
- George and Joe on a Bench: Wind-Symmetry
- Brisk Coffee
- Sunset Ovver Barnsley
- The Next Poem I Write
- Postmodernist Summer Nights in the Dearne Valley
- The Literary Life
- The Continuity Girl has Died
- Great Dogs of History
- The Veins in my Neck
- Beethoven was Deaf, You Know
- In a West Yorkshire Bus Queue
- November 1963 in a Scotland of the Mind
- The Making of the English Working Class
- From: I Found This Shirt (1998)
- I'd Better Not
- My Dog
- Self Portrait
- Tuesdays and Wednesdays
- Home Support
- Poem Containing Several R.E.M. Song Titles
- Endless Shedness
- Poem Is a City
- Happiness on the First Train from Barnsley to Huddersfield 126
- Free Improvising Musician Drops Frying Pan
- From: Perfect Catch (2000)
- Malvern Link, Early Morning
- Branwell Brontë is Reincarnated as a Vest
- Lumb Bank, 1978
- A House of Bricks
- Body and Bone: The Fat Man in the Bath
- Slip of a Man
- The Mexico Poems
- This Lake Used to be Frozen: Lamps (2011)
- It's Only a Novelty Coronation Street Alarm Clock
- Tom Jones
- A Miniature
- It's the 4th of July!
- Sleeper
- Old Age
- Norman Stopped Me on the Street
- Not a Real Bear, But a Bear Nevertheless
- Walk
- The Evening of the Day Pavarotti Died
- Drift
- Did You Ask for a Decaff off that Other Lady?
- Yorkshire Pudding Rules
- A Series of Novels
- Black Cloud Over My House Sometime in the 1960s
- The Inevitability of Snow
- The Idea of Loneliness in the Little Chef, Uttoxeter
- Platform 2
- Aubade/Nocturne
- The Poet Speaks
- Unrealismus/Realismus
- Ah've Soiled Ma Breeks! (2012)
- Come and Sit Over Here with Those Ideas of Yours
- Ah've Soiled Ma Breeks!
- Anchored
- A Scientific Explanation of the Mystery of the Passing of Time
- Tony Bought a Guitar and Got a Parking Fine
- The Language of Philosophical Enquiry
- Early Morning Stroll. Deep Woods. Just Seen My Mate Who Spent His Early Years in a Children's Home.
- Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ Seen in Yorkshire Pudding
- Ian McMillan's Unfishnished Poem
- T'invisible Man O' Methley
- Torch Passes By
- A Black Dog in Four Legs
- Dream of a Tree in a Spanish Graveyard from a Small House in The South Yorkshire Coalfield
- M' Writing Table
- Playing Chess with Uncle Charlie
- Plain, Cheese & Onion, Salt & Vinegar
- Fantasia on a Theme of Uncle Charlie
- Uncle Jack's Rubber Tarts, Boxing Day 1964
- The Sun Comes Up
- A Mo-ment
- My Achilles, He'll
- Keith's Mankini: A Three-Line Work in Progress
- Jazz Peas (2014)
- Me and Dave and Thelonious Monk Waiting for the 14 Bus
- An Archaeologist Finds an Umbrella
- Annual Report
- Approaching those 'Ruddy' Belisha Beacons Near the Post Office Again
- As Thoughs
- Elegy, Eulogy, Eelegy
- Figs
- Language and Politics
- Language and Politics 2: Maps and Dog Ventriloquism Combined in the Same Tale
- Language and Politics 3: Complexity and Simplicity, a Debate
- My Kidnapping
- Norman Came to My House
- Oboe
- Pumped
- to be Accompanied by Pumping Music
- Railway Ballad: Broken Rail
- Rhapsody, in a Jumpy Way, on the Word 'Unravel'
- The Indoor Glider: a Miniature
- The New Punctuation
- We're Doing the Quick Crossword
- An Old Map
- New & Uncollected Poems
- From 'Grafters'
- A Group of Group Portrait Questions
- A Light Breeze Carries the Stink into My Backyard
- Glimpse
- How Small, How Very Far Away
- The Hero Explains
- Framed
- Quartet
- He Finished Up Down Nine-Clog Pit
- This Wooden Flag
- Cat Hills
- Rhapsody on Boat Names and Some Observations on the Weather
- From the Garden, with the Mushroom
- To Fold the Evening Star
- Notes & Acknowledgements
- Index of Titles
- Copyright
